Sept 9th - Former CFL'er Rick Walters

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1:02You're listening to Jason Greger show presented by play Alberta dot C.A. Remember, if you gamble, use your game sense. Stay within your limits. Go to gamecents dot a B dot C.A. Asked, but you find ways to win. How important is that to have in a group that you can still win even when you don't play your best for upwards of close to 40 minutes? No, and those are all good points. It's an important characteristic to have. It's a long season. It's taking games. It's a grind. The long season shorter playoff, but you're not going to be like you said, you're a game every week, but as long as this team has shown like a lot of tenacity around it. Just being able to close out and finish games. They've kind of written a similar script in a few of the few of the wins where it's slow start. Defense hangs on for a for a bit and then offense in the second half kind of finds a couple things couple plays here and there.

2:04And defense kind of continues to play well. Shots them down and you end up scoring at the right time and that was you know, it's a blueprint that you don't always want to. Have to use but they've done a really, really good job of sticking to that. You know, for a couple of weeks now. You look at their like their their run game was weird like Rankin couldn't run. Then they made the switch pal Kim in. He got something going a little bit. Then Rankin comes back in and burst one for 50 yards. Now Calgary's D line is the strength of their team. No question, but Rankin only had five carries. So we can say while the running game wasn't working on four of five carries. Sure, but that's still only four carries. Like you got to commit to it more than four carries. Do you not? Yeah, no, I would agree. That's that's kind of the stat that sticks out is just how many carries he has when when pal who I thought I actually brought provide a big spark on. On special teams in a return game and on offense. But when he has more carries than your, you know, your potential MVP candidate. I think you.

3:09You'd have challenges now Rankin did get touches in the past game and you want to get him as many touches as you can. But but I still think you have to you have to give him more carries. The one part which I would say on the run game is that that I always look for. Is where they making people miss like are they making people missing the backfield or they making people have missing the secondary. As an offensive corner, you want to get you want to block it up so that you're your back or whoever you're getting the ball to has has a path to the free safety really. And if you can get him to the free safety, then you think, okay, well, that's a successful running play. Right now you see that they're making like whether it's Rankin or pal they're making people missing the backfield. Like even on Rankin's long run, you know, he bounced outside had to make two miss and then, you know, I had a great spin move and then made another two or three guys miss. I don't necessarily know if that's a great running play because you can't count on people making people miss all the time and call that a great run running play.

4:18And I would even say some of Powell's runs. You could say you see who is making people miss in the backfield. So again, I don't want to sound like a broken record, but it's important that they go back and it really, really look how the running game is coming coming to fruition. Is it that the backs are just making super human plays or is it actually a really good run play where we're getting them to the second level to the. You know, getting six seven yards before they're even touched or before somebody has contacts so I'm sure the coaches are looking at all that this this week because you want to get. You know, you want to give them more ball more touches, but you want to make sure you're giving them touches in good run plays. Yeah, okay. You've been involved in in Labor Day many times and and the rematch, you know, it's quick. It used to be way quicker. You used to. When you played was on the Friday night. So even one last day of rest and so, you know, they had a walkthrough late this afternoon, then they'll have one practice tomorrow, then they have a walkthrough again on Friday.

5:22You know, physically it's it's it's a toll, but it's probably more mental, right? To just you have to mentally tell yourself you're not tired in that rematch. Yeah, well, and I think the best thing about it is that you're playing against the similar opponent who just played the same game. So it's not like you're playing against somebody new or somebody coming into town. So that that was always our mindset is they're going through the same thing that we're going through. So the big part about it is it's a mental week. The coaches aren't going to you know, there's not going to be any two hour practices or anything like that. Or any backgrounds or anything like that. It's going to be mental lots of film. Make the adjustments that you need to make on film. Probably jog through what it looks like on the field. Lots of stretching, lots of hydration, getting lots of water in in your system. And then just making sure that you're, you know, kind of like what we talked about a couple of weeks ago. If there's any tweaks that you're adding to it because they've seen you for a couple weeks now. So if you're if you're running lots of hitches, can we throw it in the same like first and 10 or whatever you're running your hitches. Can we run a hitch and go?

6:33Can we, you know, incorporate a slant and go or bubble screen and go? Can we? There's a couple of run plays that you saw where we're for Jardo pulled the ball and you could see rank and kind of leaking back. Maybe they need to incorporate a little bit of a shovel pass back inside because there was no backers are attached to rank. And so I would say this week is is a lot on coaches to put in a game plan. It takes advantage of things that they see on film from the other team. Going back to the run game. How does the run game change if the quarterbacks under center or in shotgun? It changed a lot. You'd be shocked at how different it is for everybody. Now when you think about it when when a quarterbacks under center and he's taking the ball and the tailback is traditionally behind the center and he's you know six or seven yards. Now they're angles and they're aiming point change in terms of what that looks like. Their footwork changes in terms of how they're opening up to the hole. So your attack point normally if the quarterbacks in gun.

7:38You could be in pistol so you're directly behind the quarterback or you could be offset so your yard or two yards to the right or to the left. So your footwork changes from a tailback standpoint and then your aiming point is changing typically how a tailback in a run game coming together as you have the footwork that gets you to a certain place whether it's a gap or be gap. And that's where your aiming point is and normally your aiming point kind of helps set your eyes as to what you're looking at from whether you're looking at the three tech or the one tech. And then you're kind of setting up your blockers and then cutting off of that. So if it's something that you haven't committed to early in there like you might want to pull it out. You could pull it out if it's something that you've been practicing and working on. It's tough to just say. Here we are week 12 we're going to all of a sudden become a under center downhill run team. It changes you know a lot for the running aiming point like I mentioned, but it also changes for the quarterback because as you're opening up if you're opening up to the right.

8:44Maybe it's a inside zone to the right. Now your back is completely to the to the half of the field so you can't really see that. So whether you're booting out so you lose sight of the field if it's a boot or if it's a straight dropback you miss half of the field. So again, if it's something that you're practicing and working on it's a it's a great compliment, but it has to be within your arsenal. It's hard to just say I'm going to pull this out and try it in week 10 or week 12. Okay. So when you look at their run attack. Are there tweaks you'd make to it? QR pole. Classrooms QR pole. Boardrooms QR pole. Bar rooms. Ball rooms. Dorm rooms. QR pole. QR pole. QR pole. What is it? A QR code the room scans. They vote and you know everything. Live or find out later. Your call. That's QR pole. No ads. No creepy social trackers. No nonsense. QR pole. Use code room for a free month of pro with your logo at QR pole.com. That's qrpoll.com.

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10:57Uh yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure, I would. I think one of the things that like we we talked about last week is toss encounter has been predominantly their best two runs. Those are hard things to have is your staple base runs because there's there's not much to protect toss encounter. Like, like I mentioned toss the quarterback is the ball is leaving the quarterbacks hands. So linebacker safety everybody can kind of see that the ball has left their hand. So there's not a whole lot to protect a toss. Other than maybe you're tossing into a slot who's coming in front of the tailback going around the backside or something like that. Or it's a toss to the tailback and maybe he throws the ball because everybody seen it leave the quarterback's hands and they haven't ran any. Like we mentioned last week in a gadget place. So maybe it's a rank in throwing the ball. So but other than that, it's really hard to protect the toss play.

12:01Um, so what I think I would try to do if if I am them a little bit now they have I think I would incorporate some shovels. Um, somewhere you fake the inside zone. Uh, quarterback comes to run. We've seen Fregardo come to run a lot and then either pitching it back to the tailback. Uh, the, you know, the lineman are working usually you're leaving an end on a shovel and you're taking the backside. Uh, five or six guys leave the end come free and you kind of create a little bit of a wall. So the front side end comes free and you're creating a wall for the backside people with the alignment. Um, I think I think a shovel play would be would be beneficial for them because I think everybody's going with the flow of where uh, rank in is going right now and to be able to come the opposite way create different levels from defense. I think that would be positive. Um, you know, I think they do got to get downhill a little bit more, um, like straight downhill and and provide like a little bit of a wall for, for rank in and then let him kind of pick the gap that he'd like to get to.

13:07Uh, too many times I think you see him having to make somebody miss in the backfield. Uh, he's doing a great job at that. But, uh, into your point you mentioned this earlier, I think I just stay committed to, to the run game. Sometimes when you get three or four or five yards, um, you know, it's really easy as an offensive coordinator to say, okay, well, we're not getting a whole bunch right now. So we're going to, you know, throw the ball. Uh, but ranking is their first, second, third, fourth best player. So I think you have to find ways to stay committed to that. Uh, they're, you know, they're trying to get them some balls in the past game. I would continue to do that as well. Looks like Powell has a little bit of juice in his legs and, and so I, you know, um, I try to, uh, mission is for have both of them in the backfield and, and make it that the linebackers put them in a bind as to who they're going to take. Okay, that's fair. Um, defensively, the, uh, I thought the Elk's had another really solid game defensively, they create turnovers, force fumbles. Um, you know, people will look at the 28 points. I wasn't great.

14:10Game. I think at times they were kind of put in tough spots that, you know, didn't give up a ton of yards. And really when it came down to it again, Rick, like, like they gave up nothing in the fourth quarter, right? And so this defense, when it really just kind of anchors down, there's, there's a lot of offenses that can't do, do nothing. They can't run the ball. They can't pass the ball. Like, as good as the offense is being at times, I still think the defense is the heart of the team. Even 100% their whole, their whole, they're holding them down for sure. Um, one of the things that I think you can kind of look at is that clearly that come half time. They're doing a great job with adjustments as to what, what and how the offenses in the league are trying to attack them, because you've seen the defense, get better in the second half, which, which is kind of what you want. If they can hold on in the first half, figure out what offenses are trying to do to them. Their coaches are on a sideline looking at the iPads, making adjustments, whether it's an offense or in a quick game or they're trying to goverts down field or they're trying to go inside zone, outside zone.

15:14They're doing a really, really good job of figuring out what they're trying to do and then canceling those things in the second half. We saw it against Winnipeg. And then, you know, a few games ago, Winnipeg was just, you know, they were, they controlled the whole first half of the game. It looked like unstoppable offense. And then the second half again, nothing, you know, they started to blitz more, it started to be a little bit more gap sound and shut down the receivers down field. And, you know, and so I think, I think a lot of credit has to go to the coaching staff and what they've been able to do from an adjustment standpoint in the second half. Rick, great rundown. We look forward to seeing if the else can get the sweep for the second time in three years and in the process, clinch a playoff spot, which would be pretty impressive for them. That would be huge. Especially this early in the season, especially where they were there, you know, where they've been the last few years to be, you know, I think once you're all clinched them last weekend for them to be the second team with the potential of clenching, which would be massive for the organization.

16:19Rick, great stuff, buddy. We'll talk to you next week. Have a good one. All right. Sounds good. Talk to you soon. At Edward Jones, we believe rich isn't about having life all figured out. It's opening yourself to all the possibilities. That's why your dedicated financial advisor provides long term planning built around you, meeting you where you are and helping you get closer to where you want to be. So no matter where you're starting from, you can move forward with confidence. The key to being rich is knowing what counts. Let's find your rich Edward Jones, member SIPC. Who says Halloween only lasts one day? With Wayfair, one night of Halloween becomes a whole season at home. From larger than life yard decor and moody lighting to festive accents for every room in the house, wayfair has what you need to make Halloween feel like magic all in one place. Because the best Halloween memories aren't made in just one night. They're made all season long. Shop Halloween decor now at Wayfair.com.

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